Kelson Hargis: 4 books

On July 15th of every year in Asia the gates of hell open allowing the dead to roam free and curse the living. Vietnamese children make burnt offerings of valuables from cash to whole homes to appease the dead and ensure, they're not afflicted by the itinerant spirits during The Festival of Ghosts....

Stephen late for the dinner party of a lifetime, the one that will make him a partner at his law firm, trades the sentimental $50 bill his father gave him upon leaving home for the tattered, old dream journal of a homeless man. The homeless man issues a warning lost on Stephen before suddenly parting ways after insisting, he take it, "All your dreams will come true..."

Seeing ghosts is so passe anymore. A whole cottage industry of capturing and publishing them in a blizzard of mediums and outlets has exploded in popular culture. Even speaking to them has had the whole eerie mystery sucked right out of it by reality show mediums What if the dead desperately needed...

He awoke from a dream of nightmarish shrieking to the red spray of molten sparks flooding the darkened cabin of a sedan, his skull flying apart at the seams. He found pale, soft hands upon the wheel, not fully understanding whose they were, or where his sense of dangerous velocity originated from....